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Opinion – Mitch McConnell: We cannot defeat tomorrow’s enemies with yesterday’s budgets

March 6, 2025March 5, 20252

Every time Congress faces a government funding deadline, Washington reminds itself — eventually — that shutdowns are worth avoiding. This…

December 5, 2020December 4, 20200

Kentucky Health News A Kentucky example figures prominently in a national story about nursing homes, their staffs, their residents and…

August 16, 2019August 15, 20190

The Washington Post recently published a story and interactive map about the Drug Enforcement Administration database that reveals the distribution…

July 26, 201912

Staff report One of three lawsuits against national news media filed by lawyers for then-Covington Catholic student Nick Sandmann has…

March 5, 2019March 4, 20192

By L. Linn Wood and Todd McMurtry In a span of 3 days beginning on January 19, The Washington Post…

February 25, 2019February 24, 20190

The Rural Blog The October 2018 murder of Washington Post columnist and Saudi national Jamal Khashoggi may have dashed hopes for a high-tech…

May 24, 2018May 23, 20181

Any attempt to pinpoint President Trump’s most grievous sin against the body politic is rather like picking out one particular…

January 8, 20160

While red states have traditionally called for less government, some of the nation’s most conservative states rely the most on…

January 1, 2016December 31, 20150

The following represented ProPublica‘s picks for the year’s most notable in-depth stories on campaign finance, from newsrooms around the country….

December 18, 20150

The number of inmates being incarcerated in rural jails is on the rise, surpassing totals from urban ones, Max Ehrenfreund…